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VQT1C63
Others
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LCD
Conditions
Causes
The LCD monitor
sometimes turns off
although the camera is
turned on.
Is the LCD monitor turned off soon after you take pictures
with the fl ash? While the fl ash is being charged, the LCD
monitor is turned off.
The brightness of the
LCD monitor becomes
dark or bright for a
moment.
This phenomenon appears when pressing the shutter button
halfway to set the aperture value and does not affect the
recorded pictures.
The LCD monitor fl ickers
indoors.
The LCD monitor may fl icker for a few seconds after turning
the camera on indoors under fl uorescent light.
This is not a malfunction.
The LCD monitor is too
bright or dark.
Adjust the brightness of the LCD monitor. (P22)
Is the high angle mode activated? (P39)
Black, red, blue and
green dots appear on the
LCD monitor.
This is not a malfunction.
These pixels do not affect the recorded pictures.
Noise appears on the
LCD monitor.
In dark places, noise may appear to maintain the brightness
of the LCD monitor. This does not affect the pictures you are
recording.
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Flash
Conditions
Causes
Flash is not activated.
Is the fl ash setting set to Forced OFF [
v
]?
Change the fl ash setting. (P40)
The fl ash is not activated when motion picture mode [
i
],
[SCENERY], [NIGHT SCENERY], [SUNSET], [HIGH SENS.],
[STARRY SKY], [FIREWORKS] or [AERIAL PHOTO] in
scene mode (P47) is selected.
The fl ash is activated 2
times.
When you select red-eye reduction (P40), the fl ash is
activated once before the actual recording to reduce the red-
eye phenomenon (eyes of the subject appearing red in the
picture) and then activated again for the actual recording.